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On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning. Now known simply as Facebook, the site quickly ballooned into one of the most significant social media companies in history. Today, Facebook is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with over 2 billion monthly active users. More...
1861 - States meet to form Confederacy
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America. As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern ...read more
1789 - George Washington unanimously elected first U.S. president
George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, is unanimously elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential electors who cast their votes. John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 34 votes, was elected vice ...read more
1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by three armed strangers. Her fiancee, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a neighbor who tried to ...read more
1915 - Germany declares war zone around British Isles
A full two years before Germany’s aggressive naval policy would draw the United States into the war against them, Kaiser Wilhelm announces an important step in the development of that policy, proclaiming the North Sea a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from ...read more
1962 - First U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam
The first U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam. It was one of 15 helicopters ferrying South Vietnamese Army troops into battle near the village of Hong My in the Mekong Delta. The first U.S. helicopter unit had arrived in South Vietnam aboard the ferry carrier USNS Core on ...read more
1983 - Singer-songwriter Karen Carpenter dies
Karen Carpenter, a singer who long suffered under the burden of the expectations that came with pop stardom, died on February 4, 1983, succumbing to heart failure brought on by her long, unpublicized struggle with anorexia. Carpenter had a fixation with her weight from her ...read more
Historic Trivia pick - A few facts about Europe you may not have known
FaceBook is Launched
On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning. Now known simply as Facebook, the site quickly ballooned into one of the most significant social media companies in history. Today, Facebook is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with over 2 billion monthly active users. More...
1861 - States meet to form Confederacy
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America. As early as 1858, the ongoing conflict between the North and the South over the issue of slavery led Southern ...read more
1789 - George Washington unanimously elected first U.S. president
George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, is unanimously elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential electors who cast their votes. John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 34 votes, was elected vice ...read more
1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by three armed strangers. Her fiancee, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a neighbor who tried to ...read more
1915 - Germany declares war zone around British Isles
A full two years before Germany’s aggressive naval policy would draw the United States into the war against them, Kaiser Wilhelm announces an important step in the development of that policy, proclaiming the North Sea a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from ...read more
1962 - First U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam
The first U.S. helicopter is shot down in Vietnam. It was one of 15 helicopters ferrying South Vietnamese Army troops into battle near the village of Hong My in the Mekong Delta. The first U.S. helicopter unit had arrived in South Vietnam aboard the ferry carrier USNS Core on ...read more
1983 - Singer-songwriter Karen Carpenter dies
Karen Carpenter, a singer who long suffered under the burden of the expectations that came with pop stardom, died on February 4, 1983, succumbing to heart failure brought on by her long, unpublicized struggle with anorexia. Carpenter had a fixation with her weight from her ...read more
Historic Trivia pick - A few facts about Europe you may not have known- Europe has 46 countries and the largest country is Ukraine.
- There are more than 200 languages spoken in Europe.
- It is believed that the Mediterranean Sea was a desert and dried out over the course of 600,000 years.
- According to the Greek myth, the name Europe came from the Phoenician princess Europa who was seduced by Zeus, when he disguised himself as a bull and then took her to Crete.
- One of the interesting Europe facts many of us don’t know that statue of liberty was made in France designed by Frederic Bartholdi and given as a gift to the United States of America.
- The largest and smallest countries in the world are in Europe; Russia and Vatican.
- The most visited place in Europe is Disneyland, Paris.
- The leaning tower of Pisa took almost 200 years to build and is still leans.
- Greenland in the biggest island in the world.
- Sweden has more McDonald’s per capita than any other country in Europe.
- Switzerland forbids late-night trips to the bathroom and flushing the toilet paper after 10 pm to avoid the noise pollution.
- Every year in Finland, people compete to see who can carry their wives fastest and farthest.
- The longest town name in Europe is Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll-gogery-chwyrn-drobwll-llan-tysilio-gogo-goch, which is located in Wales.
- In France, it is against the law to call your pig Napoleon.
- In Germany, breaking plates is a very famous way to celebrate a couple’s approaching marriage.
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